[Numpy-discussion] Changing the distributed binary for numpy 1.0.4 for windows ?

[Alexander Michael]

On Dec 10, 2007 6:48 AM, David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     Several people reported problems with numpy 1.0.4 (See #627 and
> #628, but also other problems mentionned on the ML, which I cannot
> find). They were all solved, as far as I know, by a binary I produced
> (simply using mingw + netlib BLAS/LAPACK,  no ATLAS). Maybe it would be
> good to use those instead ? (I can recompile them if there is a special
> thing to do to build them)

Do I understand correctly that you are suggesting removing ATLAS from
the Windows distribution? Wouldn't this make numpy very slow? I know
on RHEL5 I see a very large improvement between the basic BLAS/LAPACK
and ATLAS. Perhaps we should make an alternative Windows binary
available without ATLAS just for those having problems with ATLAS?